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Thanks for opening an issue! I'll get it triaged for review.

@jsoref Sooo...I talked to the team and apparently Atom is at the end of its life and is supposed to be deprecated. In fact, my searching for it turned up...

@jsoref I'll double check just to be sure we were all talking about the same thing.

@jsoref We were not all talking about the same thing. Time to do more digging.

I'm having trouble finding someone who knows anything about Atom (still looking), but one of the team wondered if [this blog post](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/feeds?apiVersion=2022-11-28#get-feeds) would help you at all.

@jsoref Okay, sorry that doesn't help. I got a name for someone who's been here a long time and might know about it, or at least know who to ask,...

@jsoref I am back from my digging. Here is what I've been informed: Atom feeds are intentionally undocumented and unsupported, as we generally encourage folks to use our REST |...

@jsoref Answer is: yes, you can make that request and it will show you public activity.

@jsoref Honestly? There seems to be a lot of reluctance to touch the subject. Docs isn't really responsible for broad policy decisions like that, that's more on the engineering/platform health...

@jsoref I'm sure it had, maybe still has, a purpose, but I don't know what the reasoning was and certainly wouldn't mind if someone revisited the decision and came down...